horse of george

“... until you consider the implications of it I admit the assertion sounds like a glib tautology, but for liberals, being idealists, their schemes must be woven throughout with ideals, they are wedded to the ideal as their necessary companion forever... and this is why their plans so often if not always are deeply flawed, pretty but hollow things, hobbled by forced, illogical constructions... because at their very core liberals are necessarily impractical, necessarily detached from reality since a false world is the only world in which their ideas can possibly make sense... delusional detachment from reality and a consequent retreat into a realm of lofty rhetoric and libidinous theory making, unencumbered by an empirical pragmatism, is a fundamental prerequisite for the liberal, they cannot remain viable otherwise... and so it follows that the prerequisite adjunct to this delusion is the public lie, the grand illusion that hides all flaws in order to maintain the perception of inviolability... for the beating heart of idealism is the pretense of an attainable perfection and consequently all idealist autocracies become dependent on the great lie for their survival... so it is that any objective observer who cared to look could see, from the very beginning, that the true appeal of Obama was that he was especially gifted in this regard and no doubt that’s why, probably without even knowing it, liberal elites so slavishly love the man... he’s just such a wonderful liar... indeed, his story, so lovingly nurtured by the media, is a near perfect lie of pretty lines hiding a hollow core... which is why accordingly I increasingly surrender to the fear that the looming danger to this still great but undeniably weakened democracy is that the average person, if they come to believe their lives will be made better, no matter how whimsical and bereft of substance that belief may be, is quite willing to love the lie too... when you combine this tendency, this vulnerability, with a media that is so corrupted by an ideological preference that it can't even feign impartiality anymore, and you put all this power in the hands of unabashed idealists unconstrained by the dictates of a healthy scepticism, a scepticism, mind you, that is the life blood of the democratic spirit and in essence the animating soul of our constitution... well... I'd say that amounts to a rather significant threat to the republic...”